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> Typically, this is because these questions are a minor (cosmetic or trivial) variation* of an question asked many times already, and usually addressed in the
by Avamander 9y ago
> Typically, this is because these questions are a minor (cosmetic or trivial) variation* of an question asked many times already, and usually addressed in the docs.
Maybe it's time SO adopted the concept of duplicate answers, not duplicate questions?
- shagie 9y agoThey do... barely. From https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers > Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This includes answers that are: > exact duplicates of other answers However, this is left up to the community moderation rather than the diamond moderation. For the community moderation to delete an answer it must have a negative score and multiple 20k rep users have to see it and delete it. It takes a lot of work on Stack Overflow to muster that - especially when there are people up vote everything. Consider https://stackoverflow.com/q/187587 https://stackoverflow.com/q/187587 and how many posts have the same content. Having experienced this in the past, flagging duplicate answers for deletion isn't something that diamond mods will act on... and as the answers have a positive score, the community can't act on without a concerted down vote brigade.